Offering multiple perspectives from many fields of human inquiry that may move all of us toward a more integrated understanding of who we are as conscious beings.
Instructors: Daniel J. Siegel, MD * Roshi Joan Halifax * Natalie Goldberg
Description:
This exceptional program explores through teaching, interactive sessions, and meditation the neurological basis of social intelligence. Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) is a way of thinking about the experience of being human and how we develop well-being in our lives and the life of the world through the medium of our relationships. It focuses on the importance of relationships in shaping the brain so that the mind develops resilience and wholesome mental qualities. IPNB is a way of knowing that deepens our understanding of the inner, interpersonal, and therapeutic experience, and also offers direct ways to enhance the functioning of organizations.
This training will be led by psychiatrist, educator, and researcher Dr. Daniel Siegel, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and is Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. Dr. Siegel will explore the application of the skills of social intelligence to personal relationships as well as the functioning of organizations and the development of leadership skills. Roshi Joan contributes perspectives from her years of experience with engaged Buddhism, bringing together meditation and service to others. She will be leading the group in various meditation practices that are the ground for the cultivation of attentional and emotional balance and are compassion-based. Renowned writer Natalie Goldberg introduces writing practice in several sessions as a means for discovering through deep observation how we see the connectedness of our world.
This program offers theoretical and experiential learning, insights and tools. It includes interactive seminars, teachings, and meditation practice.
Upaya is now able to offer CEUs to counselors, therapists and social workers for the following 2009 retreats at a cost of $30.00 per retreat plus cost of retreat and lodging where applicable. Please consider paying this at the time of registration. Thank you.
20 CEUs for this program
For those out-of-state (non-New Mexico) counselors, therapists and social workers, please check with your respective State License Board to confirm acceptance of CEUs from the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board.
Open to public; "required" for Chaplaincy I & II.
Lodging is full. We have made arrangements with local hotels for your housing needs. These hotels are five minutes away form Upaya and range from economy to luxury in quality. Contact registrar@upaya.org for lodging information.
Below reflects a “sample” general schedule. Arrival Day 2-5 pm Check-in 5:30 pm Zazen 6:30 pm Dinner 7:45 pm Orientation / first session 9 pm Retire
Full days 7 am Zazen 8 am Breakfast 9 am Samu (work practice) meeting and samu period 10:30 am-1 pm Retreat session 1 pm Lunch 2 pm Rest period 3-5 pm Session 5:30 pm Zazen 6:30 pm Dinner 7:30 pm Evening session or retire
Departure day 7 am Zazen 8 am Breakfast 9 am Samu period 10:30 am – 1pm Session 1 pm Closing lunch and departure
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health research fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. An award-winning educator, he formerly directed the Training Program in Child Psychiatry and the infant and preschool service at UCLA. He is the recipient of the psychiatry department’s teaching award and several honorary fellowships.
Siegel is currently an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is also the director of the Center for Human Development, an educational organization that focuses on how the development of individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes.
Dr. Dan Siegel is the co-editor of a handbook of psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (1999). This book introduces the idea of interpersonal neurobiology and has been of interest to and utilized by a number of organizations, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for The Family, The Council on Technology and the Individual, early intervention programs and a range of clinical and research departments worldwide.
Dr. Siegel serves as the founding editor-in-chief for the Norton series on interpersonal neurobiology. His book with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (2003) explores the application of this newly emerging view of the mind, the brain, and human relationships. Dan Siegel’s integrated and accessible developmental approach has led him to be invited to local, national and international organizations to address groups of educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy-makers, clergy, and neuroscientists. The overall goal of these educational efforts is to provide a scientifically grounded view of human experience to a wide audience that can help facilitate the development of psychological well-being and emotional resilience across the lifespan.
Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty years and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. For the past twenty-five years, she has been active in environmental work.
A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism. Of recent, Roshi Joan Halifax is a distinguished invited scholar to the Library of Congress and the only woman and buddhist to be on the Advisory Council for the Tony Blair Foundation.
She is Founder and Director of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation, was an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University, and has taught in many universities, monasteries, and medical centers around the world.
She studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism.
Natalie Goldberg is the author of ten books, including Writing Down the Bones, which has sold over one million copies and has been translated into twelve languages. She has also written the beloved Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America, a memoir about her Zen teacher. For the last thirty years she has practiced Zen and taught seminars in writing as a spiritual practice. She lives in northern New Mexico.
Tuition (Members): $440.00 Tuition (Non-Members): $480.00 More details: Plus lodging. Dana to teachers.
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